[RFC PATCH 0/5] powerpc: make iowrite32be etc. inline

Rasmus Villemoes linux at rasmusvillemoes.dk
Thu Oct 31 11:31:49 AEDT 2019


When trying to make the QUICC Engine drivers compile on arm, I
mechanically (with coccinelle) changed out_be32() to iowrite32be()
etc. Christophe pointed out [1][2] that that would pessimize the
powerpc SOCs since the IO accesses now incur a function call
overhead. He asked that I try to make those io accessors inline on
ppc, and this is the best I could come up with.

At first I tried something that wouldn't need to touch anything
outside arch/powerpc/, but I ended up with conditional inclusion of
asm-generic headers and/or duplicating a lot of their contents.

The diffstat may become a little better if kernel/iomap.c can indeed
be removed (due to !CONFIG_PPC_INDIRECT_PIO &&
CONFIG_PPC_INDIRECT_MMIO never happening).

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6ee121cf-0e3d-4aa0-2593-fcb00995e429@c-s.fr/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/886d5218-6d6b-824c-3ab9-63aafe41ff40@c-s.fr/

Rasmus Villemoes (5):
  asm-generic: move pcu_iounmap from iomap.h to pci_iomap.h
  asm-generic: employ "ifndef foo; define foo foo" idiom in iomap.h
  powerpc: move pci_iounmap() from iomap.c to pci-common.c
  powerpc: make pcibios_vaddr_is_ioport() static
  powerpc: make iowrite32 and friends static inline when no indirection

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h         | 172 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h |   9 --
 arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile          |   2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/iomap.c           |  13 --
 arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c      |  15 ++-
 include/asm-generic/iomap.h           | 104 +++++++++++++---
 include/asm-generic/pci_iomap.h       |   7 ++
 7 files changed, 282 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

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2.23.0



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